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...Sheldon Glueck, Roscoe Pound Professor of Law, said he "sees no harm in a five year trial period." (In the last seven years the death penalty has never been carried out.) "Almost invariably states without capital punishment have lower rates of murder," he said, "but there are thousands of variable factors that cause a person to commit murder...
Born. To Major John Sheldon Doud Eisenhower, 33, only son of President Dwight Eisenhower, and Barbara Thompson Eisenhower, 29; their fourth child, third daughter; in Washington. Name: Mary Jean. Weight...
...Eliot House, Vaughn C. Payne '57 with 65 votes, edged out Sheldon J. Meyers '57 to replace incumbent David K. Sirota '56 on the Council...
...almost classic sense of detail and style. His prose is limpid. His manuscripts often have to wait years of careful research before he submits them to print. His research methods, although seemingly careless, have the same painstaking quality. After be graduated from Harvard in 1911, Wolfson went on a Sheldon Fellowship to Europe theoretically for pleasurable travel. He traveled alright, but from one library to another, Paris, Parma, Rome, and Cambridge, for a year and a half, reading copiously and taking detailed, index-type notes of what he read. He took his notes on tiny scraps of paper, often...
...first result of his Sheldon trip was a Ph.D. thesis on Crescus' Critique of Aristotle, later expanded into book form. Crescus, a 15th century Jewish philosopher, led him to Spinoza, first to a series of articles in the Chronicum Spinozarum and then to a two-volume work on Spinoza that was published in 1934. Already, however, he had begun to conceive of a grander project, a series of books on the "Structure and Growth of Philosophic Systems from Plato to Spinoza," of which a revised edition of his Spinoza work would from the terminal point. Working "backwards and sideways...